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The song is loud, with an impressive range of whistles, trills and gurgles. Its song is particularly noticeable at night because few other birds are singing. This is why its name includes "night" in several languages. Only unpaired males sing regularly at night, and nocturnal song probably serves to attract a mate.
Mate choice in female songbirds is a significant realm of study as song abilities are continuously evolving. Males often sing to assert their dominance over other males in competition for a female, sometimes in lieu of a combative episode, and to arouse the female by announcing a readiness to mate.
Birds sing louder and at a higher pitch in urban areas, where there is ambient low-frequency noise. [58] [59] Traffic noise was found to decrease reproductive success in the great tit (Parus major) due to the overlap in acoustic frequency. [60] During the COVID-19 pandemic, reduced traffic noise led to birds in San Francisco singing 30% more ...
It sounds like a one-bird duet the bird’s singing. Wood thrushes can produce overlapping songs simultaneously. The flute-like “ee-o-lay” is just the middle section of a song boasting ...
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With Lionsgate’s “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” looking to continue its reign at the top spot of the box office, it’s time to consider the most sonorous secret to ...
Here's what you need to know about The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and ... During the 10th Hunger Games, Snow is paired with the female tribute from District 12, Lucy Gray (Rachel Zegler ...
The ʻelepaio is the first native bird to sing in the morning and the last to stop singing at night; apart from whistled and chattering contact and alarm calls, it is probably best known for its song, from which derives the common name: a pleasant and rather loud warble which sounds like e-le-PAI-o or ele-PAI-o. It nests between January and June.